Table 1.
Flowchart of excluded and included patients.
Table 2.
Approaches for ORIF with medial buttressing (n = 46).
Table 3.
Implants for medial buttressing (n = 46).
Fig 1.
Sixty-eight year old man with anterior column and posterior hemitransverse fracture after alcoholic fall.
(a) Pelvic ap overview. (b) Ala view. (c) Obturator view. (d) Axial CT cut through the acetabulum. The displaced quadrilateral plate is visible. (e) Coronal CT through the acetabulum. The quadrilateral plate is displaced medially togehter with femoral head. (f) Pelvicap overview one year after ORIF. The quadrilateral plate has been reduced and secured in its position with a suprapectineal quadrilateral surface plate. (g) Ala view. (h) Obturator view. The patient shows good mobility with a rolling walking frame.
Table 4.
Fracture types of acetabular fractures of patients in group 1 (n = 40).
Table 5.
Quality of reduction in patients of group 1 (n = 40).
Table 6.
General and surgical in-hospital complications in patients of group 1 (n = 40).
Table 7.
Group 1 (n = 40). 19 of 24 surviving patients (79.2%) were interviewed after a median time of 187 weeks.
Fig 2.
Seventy-eight old man with periprosthetic acetabular fracture after fall.
The left hemiprosthesis has been inserted 9 years earlier. (a) Pelvic ap overview. (b) CT reconsruction at the level of the pelvic brim. The medial displacement of the quadrilateral plarte is clearly visible. (c) Pelvic overview 2 months after ORIF. The quadrilateral surface has been reduced and fixed with an Omega plate. (d) Ala view. (e) Obturator view. The patient shows good mobility with a rolling walking frame.
Table 8.
Group 2 (n = 6).